Autumn is here for real.

My fall wardrobe is the same year after year, and it’s my favorite season to dress.

true lover of oversized men’s clothes, huge scarves and boots and the older the better according to me

Here I’m wearing jeans but now with merino wool underneath, oversized suit jackets in wool. old leather belts,  knee-high boots, shirts and high-neck sweaters.

It gets darker, it gets quieter, it’s time for reflection no matter if we want it or not, it comes with the seasonal change.

I always get more creative this time of year but in a different kind of way. The year is soon behind us, what have I learned? What’s important to me now?  What has been the biggest change?

fall style via zara

How I dream my garden will look like one day. I’ve become such a gardener, loving it so much and I had no idea I would before we moved out of town.

It’s such an amazing thing to love, just browsing about plants and trees and being outside hoping things will grow.

Fall is when nature is the most beautiful – it shows it’s most beautiful side before it goes to sleep.

Just because we know that the fall folliage is temporary – does that makes us more prone to see the beauty of it?

I firmly believe we can only be truly present when we know that our intense experience is now and only now. Fall brings out that feeling.

I will make this receipe this weekend! It’s from the beautiful and so inspiring book: “Fridays from the Garden” by  Flamingo Estate.

love this book so so much.

This color. Obsessive. A shade to hide behind, to dive into, to dream in, to indulge in, to dress in, to decorate with, to be seduced by. Luckily we still have a guest bathroom to fix in our home, so I´m gonna paint it in Farrow & Ball Brinjal 222.  

I also found this bedding from Hay that I love! Stripes is always a good idea and this goes amazing for the season.

This is one of the rooms in our house, it’s not even half done yet when it comes to fixing curtains and shelves and putting up art on the walls etc, but it doesn’t matter. I love our deep petrol blue colored couch, and it’s the perfect place to hide. A velvet couch from and veryone in the family love our movie dungeon. I’m a pisces and we love our dark wood and shades for sho.

our weekly afternoons in the stable is my favorite ones,  Anaïs is riding and I’m watching her and helping out with the horses and I dream of living on the countryside. I love being close to people and I get energized by being social, but I also love being close to nature more and more…  Anyone else feel this too?

When we finally got a hold of an old piano, I felt that our home was finally on its way to be completed. We got it for free and it doesn’t sound perfect but that’s how we love it.

The space under the stairs is still reserved for the most important people in the family and I’m so glad we made it a hideout.

I simply put out sheep skins and tiny string lights. A book I love so much and have used so much as well is “Hidden Places – Handbok för vuxna till barnens magiska värld”

All I want right now is a dog, a horse, a leather couch, heavy velvet curtains in every room, tartan wool blankets in every corner and heavily printed cushions.  Should we move out to the country side? Probably. Pic :  1990´s Ralph Lauren ad who does maximalistic country style the best.

To all of you, a calm and lovely weekend<3 <3

XE

I’ve never seen a place as beautiful as this, both garden, the orangerie with the pond and the home… I can’t believe this is Sweden.

The beginning of a swimming pool that never was made complete

This landscape

X Emelie

Phoebe Philo has finally launched her own label, and the world has waited…

I don’t care about trends or new launches I shop more like a man and I always have. I don’t own a Celine bag from when Phoebe Philo was the creative leader, but I read a very long interview with Philo in T Magazine when we lived in NYC. I ripped those pages out as well and I still have them in an old leather folder and I’ve read it many times. I loved her view on style, design and life. Also yes,  it’s really true that I have a map, and I still rip from whatever magazines or newspaper when I feel like I need to save to my life inspo archive. I’ve kept all my favorite editorials / interviews throughout the years and it’s a select few but I still love them and they still inspire me whenever I read or look through them.

(btw these fkn amazing zip trousers are top of my favorites from the new collection)

XL Cabas bag, because small bags are useless and I love to carry everything in my one bag. Like all wise women

the entire look but the Long trench coat in black is perfection

the entire look!

The Upright collar shirt in bitter brown, the zip pants in khaki and the belt 

Hand combed skirt in white I love love love this look

High neck jumper in stucco, this is how a high neck jumper should look like

Mom necklace (I mean…)

Milanese jacket in berry wool (and this entire look!)

As well a short note on the model Daria Werbovy, she was my first style icon when I was young and started to get interested in fashion and design. She just had all that swag according to me, and she still does, even more now

XX E

what´s going on in my life whatever it is, always needs to go into my paintings. Otherwise it’s all meaningless. Thoughts, ideas, memories, whatever is happening all has to be on there.

“imagining us”

150 x 170 cm 

acrylics on canvas 

Anna Ewers by Josh Olins for Vogue 2013, my favorite look always

Straight jeans, oversized tweed jacket, the white t-shirt. No need to change that up ever

the pieces I pick for this look:

• jeanerica for the perfect blue´s
• isabel marant for the jacket
• CDLP for the softest tee

xx E

Sage, sage, sage

Hydra by night

crap wine

Alix and the ocean

Back home.

Straight from the sunrise over the ocean and the warm, crystal clear saltwater swims late in the evenings. Being outdoor as a default setting. Healing as hell.

When autumn comes knocking it brings both a sense of melancholy and excitement in my being. That is a very interesting feeling as it makes me feeling very alive and present.

What I will bring with me from the long Summer on Hydra:

• all senses are equally important to enhance life’s experiences : scents/the kind of light the day brings/strong or slow winds/beauty in the surroundings

• eating slowly

• being in nature everyday no matter the weather or wherever I am in the world

• routine is essential. It´s not boring its the key to complete freedom and creativity

• moving slowly

• not being busy as a default setting that Ive easily fallen back into in harder times. Being busy all the time doesn’t mean -good girl working hard- it’s a trauma response to feel afraid of slowing down because what will happen if I loose control of everything I´m trying to control with my ¨state of business´. Stillness is the only way to clarity and forward movement and not living in the future

• literature that doesn’t sweep me off my feet on the first page is not a book I will try to force myself through.  The days in our lives are too short to choose to force things that should be enticing/alluring/exciting/inviting/seducing/mind blowing/.  The books I keep forever and ever and re-read are those who does that, that moves me.  Movies and experiences. If it doesn’t move me , why do I keep trying? Rule goes for relationships and all kinds of experience we think we should love/like/try/. It’s not wrong to change what we like and what we want to to any given morning that we wake up. Habits and things we have collected and added unconsciously throughout our lives are sometimes not completely aligned with freedom of expression and creation

• creating

when I experience a profound sense of purpose all living is enhanced where ever I am whatever I do. When I wrote music in my younger years it was lonely but when melodies and lyrics pulls a string in other people who listens, connection is created. When I paint, I escape reality, escape captivity and time. It´s like Ive found this formula, a secret…  The true and clear purpose of creating…. feeling utterly connected to life and to feel truly free

x

I have dreamed of going to this island and now we are staying for a month. A dream coming true.

I ove being in this state of mind. Full of dreams, expectations, excitement…. they say we shouldn’t live in the future but to me it’s bullshit, we all live now but if we not dream what are we then?

flying solo with my 3 kids, got a meme from a friend the other day, it goes like this:

1 kid is 1 kid

2 kids are 2 kids

3 kids is 97645368 kids, 2 hurricanes + 1 donkey

I find that hilarious and oh so true because that’s exactly how I feel! All of them are pinch me amazing and extravagant enviable human, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that my three little women together makes a party of 100 (plus a donkey)

But anyway I did it! And Alix did not sit still for one minute the entire 44 min flight so I imagine three coming weekend´s 4 hour flight will be a tango ! Soundtrack to the trip in my head walking up and down the airplane : Emotion – Purple Disco Machine

Feels.

Focus and getting out of my own way to bring out into the world what I have within

on my essential life list for the rest of my days on this earth

• painting as it is my being
• meaningful and true friendships
• creating
• meeting new people
• seeing new places
• never stop being curious
• having fun
• not taking life too serious
• live music
• dancing
• all kinds of movement
• community
• expansion
• painting

Rosanna and I

Tove, Sarili and I: loving lollapalooza plastic bag babies (since 2003)

I read about her Constance debré), in svenska dagbladet and I stepped into Hedengrens to buy all of her books, I wanted to read them in Swedish not in English. They had only this one translated from French. I wanted to read the raw language of her own as much as I could and sometimes English doesn’t hit as hard. When I read the reviews it was intriguing . I had to read her right now, and when I got the book I read it in one day. I cannot say much yet except that I couldn’t let go. This woman wants to be free. A woman can never go free. A groundbreaking read, terribly heartbreaking and sad.

x E

my most loved mother turned 70 and my entire family celebrated her birthday in the beautiful village of St Paul De Vence in France.

So incredible to be able to visit La Colombe D´or and see it’s incredible art collection… This village was a spot for the greatest  artists of time and to see Alexander Calder among other works has been something Ive always wanted to do and it was even more breathtaking in reality.